SPECIAL SECTION
Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
In our January 2007 issue, at the cusp of Ireland's economic boom, WLT dedicated a special section to "Modern Ireland," including a look at how the Celtic Tiger economy was affecting literature and the arts. The boom now bust, WLT invited three Irish writers to share their post-Celtic Tiger writing. Together they conjure a dark, ominous landscape of pre-bust foreboding, cars burned out for insurance proceeds, taxis going nowhere, and curses. Ultimately, these writers lead us to ask ourselves: After the economic collapse, what remains? Buy the July 2012 issue of WLT to read this special section.
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Caitriona O'Reilly
The Suicides They ask: the world gives them a stone,revolving until the greater part of her is in darkness. Out among the night-stations the signals falter,the mechanism of the cell winds down. We can...
Table of Contents
EDITOR'S NOTE
by Daniel Simon
Reading Through a Glass Darkly: The e-Book Revolution
A Tribute to Marina Carr
ESSAY "The Shadow Side of Modern Ireland," Jody Allen Randolph
ESSAY "Tough, Impossible Love: The Theater of Marina Carr," Mark Cuddy
Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland
FICTION "Major Drill," Ethel Rohan
POETRY
Two Poems by Caitriona O'Reilly
by Caitriona O'Reilly
EXCERPT The Devil I Know, Claire Kilroy
Essays
Fun with Your New Head: Getting into SF
by Michael A. Morrison
"A Lesson in the Nature of Revolution," Adania Shibli
"What is Asia to Me? Looking East from Africa," Ngugı wa Thiong’o
Fiction
"We, the Daughters of Mr. Khunsur Ali," Murtedha Gzar
Poetry
"Meditation Caves of Tibet," Fred Dings
Two Poems, Paula Bohince
The Truth a Poet Can Tell
Interviews
WEB EXCLUSIVE
Turning Urban Obsolescence into Community Connection: A Conversation with John Locke
by John Tyler Allen
Web Exclusives
WEB EXCLUSIVE
The Dublin Writers Museum
WEB EXCLUSIVE
10 Unusual Micro Libraries
In Every Issue
Editor's Pick: Drifting House (Viking) by Krys Lee
by Jen Rickard Blair
City Profile: Literature in the “Land of God” (Marrakech, Morocco)
What to Read Now: Migration Narratives
by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
New Books: Writers and Their Cities